.5 percent. now, we have john leboutillier, a former republican congressman, and pat caddell, a pollster, and doug schoen, former pollster for bill clinton. this is in the margin of error so we can call it a tie, but, doug, has the president essentially moved ahead here? >>doug: it is clear he has moved ahead. now it is in the margin of error but at the outside. the trend on issue questions and voting questions are going in president obama's direction. this is the time that the romney campaign has to recalibrate and come up with something new and different. >>pat: absolutely. can you argument whether it is a couple points or this, that, or the other but the movement is there and we will talk about the economy, and the president's job rating is moving that way. another thing that is important to note, i believe the democrats got a bump not from obama but for their party i.d. with movement suggesting in the polls that people are moving more to the democratic brand and, remember, bill clinton did this. that was the speech, aimed, attacking the republican brand, not romney. but when you move
